The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-02-17
A LESSON WITH A MORAL.
When VIII Our Eyes be Opened 10 this Great Ma
fi0uaI Calamityt


The year 1886 played sad havoc with many
prominent men Of our country.
Many of them died without warning, passing
away apparently in the full flush Of life.
Others were sick but comparatively short
time We turn TO our files and are astonished
70 find that most Of them died of apoplexy, Of
paralysis Of nervous prostration, of malignant
blood humor, of Brights disease, Of heart dis
ease Of kidney disease, Of rheumatism or OF
pneumonia.
IL is singular that most Of our prominent
men die Of these disorders. Any Journalist who
watches the telegraph reports will be astonish-
cd at the number OF prominent victims Of these
disorders.
Many statements have appeared in our paper
with others 10 the effect that the diseases that
carried of so many prominent men in lSS6 are
really one disease taking different names ac-
cording 10 the location of the fatal effects.
When valuable horse perishes, IL becomes
the nine DAYS talk Of the sporting world, and
yet thousands of ordinary horses are dying
every day, their aggregate loss is enormous, and
yet their death creates no comment
So il is with individuals. The cause OF
death of prominent men creates comment,
especially when il can be shown that one un-
suspected disease carries off most Of them, and
yet vast numbers of ordinary men and women
die before their time every year from the same
cause"
II is said il the blood is kept free from uric
acid, that heart disease. paralysis, nervous
prostration, pneumonia, rheumatism, and many
cases Of consumption, would never be known.
This uric acid, we are told, is the waste of the
system and il is the duty of the kidneys TO re-
move this waste.
We are told that il the kidneys are main
tanned in perfect health, the uric, kidney, acid
is kept out of the blood, and these sudden and
universal diseases caused by uric acid will, in
a large measure, disappear.
But how shall this be donep II is folly TO
treat effects. IL there is any known way of
getting at the cause that way should be known
20 the public We believe that Warmers safe
cure, of which so much has been written, and
so much talked Of by the public generally, is
now recognized by impartial physicians and the
public as the one specific for such diseases.
Because public attention has been directed
TO this great remedy by means of advertising,
some persons have not believed in the remedy.
! We cannot see how Mr.. Warner could imme-
diately benefit the public in any other way, and
his valuable specific should not be condemned
because some nostrums have come before the
| public in the same way, any more than that all
/ doctors should be condemned because SO many
of them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions You
hear on every side, of that great remedy, and
public opinion thus based upon an actual expe-
rience, has all the weight and Importance OF
/ absolute truth.
AT this time Of the year, the uric acid in the
blood invites pneumonia and rheumatism, and
! there is not q man who does not dread these
monsters Of disease; but he need have no
fear Of them we are told, if he rid the blood OF
! the uric acid cause
These words are strong, and may sound like
an advertisement. and be rejected as such by
unthinking people, but we believe they are the
truth, and as such should be spoken by every
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